The small transit operator Fredericton Transit Division had their routes added to Google Transit tonight for the Fredericton (85k) area, adding yet another Canadian location for the terrific trip planning service. The University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University students in the area will surely benefit from this trip-planning service.

The City of Fredericton Transit Division operates 28 buses on eight routes, Monday to Saturday, 6:30 am until 11:00 pm, providing safe, affordable mobility to those in the community who do not have access to or choose not to use a private vehicle. In addition we operate chartered busing to various school, tour, and conference groups in and around Fredericton, and a parallel service , Dial-A-Bus, for persons with a disability.

Looks like Google Transit has rolled out Quebec’s AMT Service

I went to visit Agence métropolitaine de transport using Google’s link http://www.amt.qb.ca, but it had been hijacked! No wait. Google put ‘qb’ instead of ‘qc.’ Need to fix that folks. Should be qc…

Postscript: Google fixed the link.

AMT’s territory spans 63 municipalities and one native reserve, 13 regional county municipalities, and 21 transit authorities. It serves a population of approximately 3.7 million people who make more than 750,000 trips daily.

Google Transit expands once again as it announced inclusion of European locations from Italy to Switzerland, helping mass transit users efficiently move about! This is the latest in a series of changes recently including addition of Southeastern Virginia, Sacramento, and Vancouver BC.

Firenze (Florence) Italy and Torino (Turin) Italy (Gruppo Torinese Trasporti) - 90 million passengers every year.

Switzerland National (SBB, VBZ) - around 25,000km of mass transit.

Southeast UK including London (Traveline South East) - see this outstanding article about integration of UK’s public transit data into Google.

See also the post about this in Search Engine Land.

On my pay per click campaign summary I see this:

I’m not sure but this seems like the first time they’ve made specific traffic increase predictions. Here, they point out

Daily budget of $100.00 met on 13 of the last 15 days. Increasing your budget to the recommended amount would allow your ads to show 118% more often and get approximately 784 more clicks per month.

Yeah, more traffic. But is it the right kind of traffic? Only a watchful eye can tell that. Sadly, many amateur PPC marketers will just go with the recommendation without thinking.

The Logo From Google India - I’d never seen this before.

I’d only seen this one after finding it on pulse2.0

Yet another expansion on Google Transit.

Yesterday, they moved Japan to the top, so we knew something was up.

This complements Vancouver’s existing NextBus Info and Trip Planner services.

“….TransLink, the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, is a small organization involved with transportation planning, administration of service contracts with subsidiary companies and contractors, the management of capital projects, financial management and planning, public affairs and supporting business functions. …”

They are having a celebration, and here’s the invitation.

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